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Cakradatta (Cikitsasangraha) 24

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24.1

Whatever diminishes kapha and does not agitate vāta, / all that should always be performed as the treatment of ūrustambha. // 1

24.2

For it unction should not be done, nor enema, nor purgation; / an entirely unctuous-free regimen destroying kapha should be performed there at first. // 2

24.3

Afterwards the entire course of treatment should be performed for the destruction of vāta. / Śilājatu or guggulu, or pippalī or dry ginger, // 3

24.4

in ūrustambha one should drink with [cow's] urine or with the decoction of daśamūlī. / Bhallātaka, amṛtā, śuṇṭhī, dāru, pathyā, and punarnavā, // 4

24.5

mixed with the two pañcamūlīs, destroy ūrustambha; / or indeed a decoction of pippalī, pippalīmūla, and bhallātaka, // 5

24.6

or [their] paste with honey should be given to destroy ūrustambha. / One should lick triphalā, cavya, kaṭukā, and pippalīmūla with honey, // 6

24.7

or drink pura with [cow's] urine to destroy ūrustambha; / or one should lick triphalā powder combined with kaṭukā with honey. // 7

24.8

Or a man should drink the Ṣaḍdharaṇa powder with warm water, / or Vardhamānapippalī with honey or jaggery. // 8

24.9

In ūrustambha they praise also Gaṇḍīrāriṣṭa. / [A paste] of cavya, abhayā, citraka, and devadāru with honey is [wholesome] in stiffness of the thighs; // 9

24.10

or the physician should apply a paste of karañja fruits and mustard seeds with copious [cow's] urine. / With honey, mustard, and termite-mound earth combined, // 10

24.11

he should perform firm unction together with plaster in ūrustambha. / For the purpose of reducing kapha, he should engage him in such exercises as are possible. // 11

24.12

He should make him walk on dry land, and swim across rivers against the current. / With two palas each of pippalīmūla and dry ginger, Aṣṭakaṭvara: // 12

24.13

a prastha of oil equal [in measure] to curd removes sciatica and stiffness of the thighs. / In this Aṣṭakaṭvarataila, mustard oil is preferred. // 13

24.14

With kuṣṭha, śrīveṣṭaka, udīcya, sarala, dāru, keśara, / ajagandhā, and aśvagandhā, one should cook mustard oil. // 14

24.15

One afflicted with stiffness of the thighs should drink of this in proper measure with honey. / Saindhavādya oil is beneficial, [as is] Varṣābhvamṛta guggulu. // 15

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